Patents by Inventor Masahide HORIUCHI

Masahide HORIUCHI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10088997
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating data includes a display unit that displays an area object the contour of which is extracted from an image to be processed by an image processing application, an operating unit that receives selection conditions for selecting an area object that is intended by a user out of the area objects displayed by the display unit, and a contour extracting unit that extracts a contour of an area object selected based on the selection conditions received by the operating unit. When the contour extracting unit extracts a contour of a selected area object, the display unit displays the selected area object and an unselected area object in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano
  • Patent number: 9733872
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an object aggregating unit configured to aggregate spot color objects that are object to be printed in respective spot colors, for each of types of the spot color objects based on drawing information indicating the spot colors or methods of printing in the spot colors, to place the spot color objects on spot color layers corresponding to the types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tsuwano, Masahide Horiuchi, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150371101
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating data includes a display unit that displays an area object the contour of which is extracted from an image to be processed by an image processing application, an operating unit that receives selection conditions for selecting an area object that is intended by a user out of the area objects displayed by the display unit, and a contour extracting unit that extracts a contour of an area object selected based on the selection conditions received by the operating unit. When the contour extracting unit extracts a contour of a selected area object, the display unit displays the selected area object and an unselected area object in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano
  • Patent number: 9177232
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a processing range determination unit, and a contour extraction unit. The receiving unit receives specified position information that indicates a position specified by a user with respect to a target image. The processing range determination unit determines, when a distance between a start point position that indicates a start point of positions indicated by the specified position information, and a position indicated by the latest specified position information is a threshold or less, a closed area obtained based on a history of the received specified position information as a processing range. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour of an object in the processing range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano, Youhei Yamane
  • Publication number: 20150262047
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an object aggregating unit configured to aggregate spot color objects that are object to be printed in respective spot colors, for each of types of the spot color objects based on drawing information indicating the spot colors or methods of printing in the spot colors, to place the spot color objects on spot color layers corresponding to the types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiko TSUWANO, Masahide Horiuchi, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9122980
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an identifying unit, a generation unit, and a contour extraction unit. The identifying unit identifies a first object expressed by pixel data and a second object expressed by vector data from target image data including drawing information for each object. The generation unit performs rasterization based on first drawing information indicating the drawing information of the first object and second drawing information indicating the drawing information of the second object to generate combined image data, into which the first object and the second object are combined. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour from the combined image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Youhei Yamane, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9111205
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a first identifying unit, and a generation unit. The receiving unit receives specified position information indicating a position specified by a user with respect to an image indicated by target image data including drawing information of each object. The first identifying unit identifies a first object indicating an object including the position indicated by the specified position information. The generation unit generates a third object indicating an object having lower priority of display than a second object indicating higher priority of display than the first object, and having higher priority of display than the first object, and an object having the same shape as the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Fumiko Tsuwano, Masahide Horiuchi, Youhei Yamane, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150131127
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a processing range determination unit, and a contour extraction unit. The receiving unit receives specified position information that indicates a position specified by a user with respect to a target image. The processing range determination unit determines, when a distance between a start point position that indicates a start point of positions indicated by the specified position information, and a position indicated by the latest specified position information is a threshold or less, a closed area obtained based on a history of the received specified position information as a processing range. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour of an object in the processing range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano, Youhei Yamane
  • Publication number: 20150131113
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving unit, a first identifying unit, and a generation unit. The receiving unit receives specified position information indicating a position specified by a user with respect to an image indicated by target image data including drawing information of each object. The first identifying unit identifies a first object indicating an object including the position indicated by the specified position information. The generation unit generates a third object indicating an object having lower priority of display than a second object indicating higher priority of display than the first object, and having higher priority of display than the first object, and an object having the same shape as the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Fumiko TSUWANO, Masahide HORIUCHI, Youhei YAMANE, Hiroki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150124295
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an identifying unit, a generation unit, and a contour extraction unit. The identifying unit identifies a first object expressed by pixel data and a second object expressed by vector data from target image data including drawing information for each object. The generation unit performs rasterization based on first drawing information indicating the drawing information of the first object and second drawing information indicating the drawing information of the second object to generate combined image data, into which the first object and the second object are combined. The contour extraction unit extracts a contour from the combined image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Youhei YAMANE, Masahide HORIUCHI, Fumiko TSUWANO, Hiroki YAMAMOTO